Editing 1607 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gibraltar (1607)|Battle of Gibraltar]]: A [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] fleet of 26 warships, led by Admiral [[Jacob van Heemskerck]], stages a surprise attack on a [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] fleet anchored in the [[Bay of Gibraltar]]. In the battle that ensues, Spain loses as many as 10 galleons and 12 smaller ships, and at least 300 men are killed. The disaster causes Spain to go into bankruptcy by October.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Quarm|title=The Ship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hlZQAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Scala Books|isbn=978-1-85759-010-4|page=23}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] &ndash; English colonists make landfall at [[Cape Henry]], [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]], later moving up the [[James River]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia]], is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the [[American frontier]].
* [[May 15]] &ndash; From Jamestown, [[Christopher Newport]], George Percy, Gabriel Archer and others travel six days exploring along the [[James River]] up to the falls and [[Powhatan]]'s village.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; At [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], the president of the governing council, [[Edward Maria Wingfield|Edward Wingfield]], directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives:  "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..."<ref>John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964).</ref> 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing two people and wounding 10.
* [[May 28]] &ndash; A wooden defensive wall ([[palisade]]) is built by settlers around the Fort at Jamestown. Gabriel Archer writes in his journal, "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort". 
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[John Hall (physician)|Dr John Hall]] marries [[Susanna Hall|Susanna]], daughter of [[William Shakespeare]], at the [[Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon]] (England).
* [[June 8]] &ndash; Newton rebellion: The Tresham landowning family kills more than 40 peasants during protests against the [[enclosure]] of common land in [[Newton, Northamptonshire]], England, at the culmination of the [[Midland Revolt]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; In Jamestown, [[John Smith (explorer)|Captain John Smith]] is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; At Jamestown, the triangular fort is completed and armed: "The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines."<ref>George Percy (Tyler 1952:19).</ref> The colony reportedly bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort.<ref>John Smith, ''Proceedings'' (Barbour 1964:210).</ref>
* [[June 22]] &ndash; Christopher Newport sails back to England.